eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2016

I do a lot of speaking about ed-tech trends, and none of my talks seem to get larger audiences than those that address new or emerging technologies. This comprehensive report helps education leaders and practitioners develop future-focused digital strategies and learning approaches that mirror the needs and skills of the real world.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

Regarding gender, there is a long history of robots being programmed with female-sounding voices. It’s a trend that some observers critique as reinforcing gender biases , especially considering the relative dearth of women involved in creating these kinds of tech tools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Students don’t want a robot to teach them; they might use a robot to help them, but they don’t want AI to teach them.”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This district is among student success examples– learn how a new look at assessments helped boost success. Last fall, ChatGPT, an AI-powered language model, became the subject of widespread discussion, from lighthearted memes about robots taking over to genuine confusion about the capabilities and implications of AI.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Or ‘like a robot,’” Levine said. They thought it was ‘too perfect.’

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

I do a lot of speaking about technology trends in education, and none of my talks seem to get larger audiences than those that address new or emerging technologies. So, as an educator interested in technology — after all, you are reading eSchool News — what is the best source for tracking emerging technologies for learning?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2023

It’s almost like the teacher is programming the robot to do their job for them.” He pointed to a buyer’s guide for generative tools , noting that “institutions will need to have their needs and priorities clear … before buying marking machines or teaching robots or any other such thing.” Chocolate-Covered Broccoli’?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In partnership with Amazon Future Engineer, we’ve committed to providing coding and robotics instruction to 150,000 students over the next 12 months,” said Ido Yerushalmi, CEO of CoderZ. To continue the trend, in 2020, 78 organizations have returned to make a commitment at least twice. About CoderZ.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A panel of 59 experts from 18 countries discussed major trends in education that are driving the adoption of technology, as well as the big challenges to effective implementation. Trends affecting the adoption of technology in schools. NMC/CoSN Horizons Report: K-12 Edition).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Inspired by the breakout podcast Serial, four years ago two digital learning leaders at the University of Central Florida created their own podcast—focused on online learning instead of true crime. Do you see that as a broader trend as well? Or read a portion of the interview below, lightly edited for clarity.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

More colleges are using it for online learning, since it can make students and instructors more present to each other than most other media. For example, telepresence robots could give remote students more options for expression in class when they can’t be there in person. Video can interact with other technologies, too.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 7, 2020

If trends continue unabated, by 2030 we may be looking at nearly 50 percent of school-aged children walking away from traditional public education in this country. This is a cultural trend and it’s increasingly being talked about. This year, 27 percent of school-aged children have opted out. One out of every two children.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2022

Typically, middle school is when many students disengage from school — this trend continues as they go on to higher grades. During this period of their lives, learners are still developing critical thinking abilities and prefer active learning. The camp introduced eighth graders to coding and avionics.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the past 18 months, educators across the country learned how to adjust their instruction to online learning environments; many had to completely rethink how they would approach their content to meet the needs of all learners.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

It enables children to use artificial intelligence to train and build robots. Druga talked about how kids first assumed the robots were super brainy. But once students learned how to train a robot, she said, “their perception goes from, it’s smarter than me to, it’s not smart, significantly. Subscribe today!

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

Colleges around the country have shut down and moved teaching online, and no one knows when it will be safe to reopen and resume normal operations. That reality was highlighted during a live online discussion EdSurge held this week in partnership with Bryan Alexander’s Future Trends Forum. We need to be thinking about that.

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Perry Hewitt

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Weekend fun: First the robots took our factory jobs, and now they're coming for the songwriters. Every Friday, find five, highly subjective pointers to compelling technologies, emerging trends, and interesting ideas that affect how we live and work digitally.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2018

Sometimes an artificial persona (call it AI, virtual assistant, robot like ASIMO, whatever) can, in its failed attempt to be human, be truly tragic. Kent Darr put it this way: “AI can quickly interpret qualitative data to show us large trends in classes, colleges, or entire student bodies. The result can be jarring.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Abrupt shifts to virtual and hybrid learning laid bare the vast inequities that exist in the U.S. The move to online learning also made people wonder: Are there practices we can continue when the pandemic abates? Jason Innes, Director of Curriculum, Training, and Product Management, KinderLab Robotics. “We

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 22, 2019

She is currently working on her upcoming book Libraries Supporting Online Learning: Digital Literacy, Open Access and Local Connectivity from ABC-CLIO. Her research interests include online instructional design, discovery and digital literacy. Spring Summit, The Emerging Future: Technology and Learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

She is currently working on her upcoming book Libraries Supporting Online Learning: Digital Literacy, Open Access and Local Connectivity from ABC-CLIO. Her research interests include online instructional design, discovery and digital literacy. You can also find them--and interact with the presenters-- here.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. KIPP Morial, a school in New Orleans East, exemplifies how the personalized learning trend rolled out in charters across the Crescent City. DeVonté Trask, 11.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

A quick round of introductions revealed some interesting trends: a growing number of liberal arts institutions are launched or growing online learning programs; many sought to find the distinct ways liberal arts institutions, and campuses pursuing liberal education, can use technology. Online learning is on the rise.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

Restaurants have rapidly shifted to online and mobile ordering, and are speeding up the deployment of digital kiosks that replace human workers. Retailers such as The Gap are accelerating the adoption of robots in their warehouses.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow.

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Evelyn Learning

MAY 14, 2023

Introducing technology in education is another trend that is on the rise. I saw students who are performing great and getting good grades in online learning as well as those students who used to get straight A’s, but now, are not getting technology”. Many schools are inclining more towards online learning.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Textbooks could be history as schools switch to free online learning | Philly.com → Garnet Valley is a district in the vanguard of a nationwide movement to ditch traditional textbooks for open-source educational resources on the web. That's a lot of computers.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

What are the educational technology trends in 2024? Trends in K-12 education in 2023 will continue into 2024, most notably immersive technologies, artificial intelligence, personalized learning, and online and hybrid learning. These K-12 technology trends are shaping the K-12 educational experience.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. They competed against each other in robotics competitions but teamed up in 2016 to start building their labs.

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Hack Education

JUNE 1, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The Diplomat : “ Online Learning in North Korea.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Via Science : “How researchers are teaching AI to learn like a child.” ” asks The Atlantic. ” LOL.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

It was the latest big-fix trend in K-12 education, and Gist, a favored daughter of Silicon Valley philanthropists, offered up the nation’s smallest state as a laboratory mouse. The same was true at the affluent, predominantly white Barrington Middle School, which will soon move into a $68 million building fitted with a robotics lab.

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Hack Education

MAY 18, 2018

“Free College” Via Edsurge : “For Free Community College , Online Learning Isn’t Always Part of the Recipe for Success.” ” “Examining Trends in Graduate Student Debt by Race and Ethnicity” by Seton Hall University professor Robert Kelchen. ” That is, Marion Technical College.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

.” Via the Hechinger Report : “Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code?” ” Can people please read Seymour Papert before launching their learn-to-code product and/or writing PR for it? ” Via Education Dive: “ Is predictive analytics a step too far in student assistance?

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference. I wrote about social-emotional learning (algorithms) as a “trend to watch.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. For more news about robots not taking jobs, see the HR section above.

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

Perhaps it should go in the “robots” section. “ Artificial Intelligence: Could emerging technologies ‘humanize’ teaching & learning? “ Will these four technology trends change education in India? Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” asks CoSN. ” asks Livemint.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

I’m also curious how this news – again, I’m not sure two closures are really a “trend” – will affect student loan startups. ” On Tuesday a court dismissed a petition by Ashford Universit y (owned by Bridgepoint Education ) to allow its online programs to be eligible for GI Bill benefits.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Tony Bates looks at “Brexit and online learning in Europe.” From the edX blog : “How to be a Better Learner: Determine Your Learning Style.” “ Robots won’t replace teachers because they can’t inspire us.” Priorities. ” B t. MOOCs losing their mojo? edtech https://t.co/DOo11lof2f

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